Neutralization

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acid–base reactions

…fixed quantity of acid to neutralize a fixed quantity of base was one of the earliest examples of chemical equivalence: the idea that a certain measure of one substance is in some chemical sense equal to a different amount of a second substance. In addition, it was found quite early…

Lewis theory

…acid and a base (neutralization) results in the formation of an addition compound, in which the electron pair that constitutes the chemical bond comes from only one reactant. Included in the Lewis definition of acids are the metal ions; the oxides of certain nonmetallic elements, such as sulfur, phosphorus,…

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